Driving alignment between product strategy, engineering execution and team development, to ensure that Spexi delivers innovative and reliable solutions at a global scale.

Local startup veritree brings transparency and trust to nature-based climate solutions. Contracted to identify and implement changes which resulted in faster and more predictable delivery, unlocking organizational scale.- Implemented a transformational shift by integrating Agile methodologies across engineering and product teams, conducting extensive training sessions and fostering an environment of continuous improvement and collaboration. This strategic change led to a significant increase in project delivery speed, enhanced adaptability to changing requirements, and improved team morale and productivity.- Guided the product and engineering teams toward predictable delivery in an agile framework.- Established and codified organizational and technical best practices.- Identified resource gaps and allocation optimizations, and took responsibility for and transformed the product and engineering hiring process.- Provided evidence-based recommendations to C-level leadership for further improvements.- Interim Product Owner responsible for prioritizing features ensuring alignment with customer needs and business goals- Screened engineering and product candidates and ensured new hires integrated smoothly into the team, providing guidance, training and one-on-one support

Thinkific is an all-in-one platform to help users create, market & sell online courses. Led multidisciplinary, remote teams of up to 10 contributors, driving top-priority, high-visibility initiatives with projected annual returns of over $10M.- Managed team of 5 full-time and 5 contract engineers doing mobile software development in Flutter.- Planned, scoped, and delivered a new pilot Communities product, leading a team of 8 software development engineers (SDEs) working in React and Ruby. Successfully brought the product to market, creating a new revenue stream.- Led Course Builder React migration, and various school management enhancements, with a team of 5 SDEs. Introduced new features and improved existing ones, making the core product more secure, supportable, extensible and scalable.- Executed transition to a disciplined Agile/Scrum methodology on a two-week sprint cadence, normalizing the Mobile team, and resulting in accelerated and more predictable deliveries. - Collaborated with cross-functional peers to establish quarterly and annual objectives and key results (OKRs).- Provided coaching and mentorship for managers and individual contributors at all levels, across the organization.

Supervised teams of up to 10 multidisciplinary FTEs, responsible for security, reliability, performance, and regulatory compliance of 100M+ MAU applications for e-commerce, streaming, subscriptions, data analysis, marketing and outreach.- Shepherded 350+ web properties through the entire SLDC, from concept to scale and long-term support, for MLB, its teams and its partners, which included all associated leagues and teams, other national sports leagues (ex. NHL, WWE, PGA), media networks (ex. HBO, SportsNet), athletes, celebrities, and more.- Hired and managed consistently productive, engaged and exemplary teams of engineering, product management, product design, and testing, focused on Java and JS application development, cloud services configuration, and direct marketing.- Provided technical and foundational guidance and instruction to SDEs, SDETs, and PMs at all experience levels.- Facilitated creation and iterations of OKRs and management frameworks, for my team and across departments, resulting in increased velocity and predictability, and consistently exceeded KPI targets for project completions, traffic scaling and SLOs- Led department normalization on Scrum framework, optimized development/testing/deployment workflows, actively contributed to codebases, and responded to and resolved major incidents when on-call.

Responsible for MLB and Houston Astros marketing, ticketing and other initiatives, then partners' web and mobile properties. Grew to be the most senior member of a team of 4 developers, becoming responsible for individuals' growth and development, team process iteration, and cross-department communications. - Developed unique or enhanced interfaces and experiences for MLB and its partners' marketing, e-commerce, subscriptions, streaming, sweepstakes and multi-channel outreach, using Java/JavaScript stack and direct marketing tools. - Created multiple new properties adding 1M+ MAU, and improved existing ones to support over 50x traffic scale.- Guaranteed requirements were clearly defined and consistently exceeded, through innovation, leadership, mentorship, championing process improvement, and writing clean, extensible and reusable code.

Responsible for the digital presence of Rachael Ray, management of 5 vendor teams of up to 4 engineers and designers each.- Selected hosting, development and design vendors, negotiated financial and technical contract terms and SOWs.- Led migration enabling scale of active community users from 5 to 10 figures, while reducing yearly operating costs by 25%.- Designed and led development and iteration on primary site, 70+ microsites, daily direct-marketing campaigns, and a novel segment production CRM tool, modernizing security, analytics, virtualization, database management and version control. - Webby Awards Official Honoree in three categories (including Best Practices), in recognition for visual design, interactivity, functionality and user experience.

Reduced clients' risk exposure to export controls regulatory environment, based on communication with the National Council for International Trade Development and US Dept. of Commerce Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee. Took on additional responsibilities related to IT systems management and digital marketing:- Implemented full redesign of the company's and its subsidiaries' seven web properties, focusing on e-commerce, user experience improvements, usability heuristics, SEO and SEM.- Overhauled branding and market strategy, created new online sales conduits, increasing monthly page views by 350%, reducing bounces by 30%, reducing hosting costs by 75%, and increasing company productivity.